Shim Sham

The Shim Sham Shimmy, Shim Sham or just Sham originally is a particular tap dance routine and is regarded as tap dance's national anthem. For today's swing dancers, it is a line dance.
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The tradition

The Shim Sham Shimmy, Shim Sham or just Sham originally is a particular tap dance routine and is regarded as tap dance's national anthem. For today's swing dancers, it is a line dance.

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Shim Sham is jazz dance routine, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1

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Sources

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Wikidata: Shim Sham (Q1428390)databaseWikidata

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Cite: “Shim Sham.” folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/shim-sham — text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
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